Garry Wills

1934 - Born in Atlanta, Georgia on the 22th of May. 1951 - He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. 1961 - Received his PhD in classics from Yale in. 1863 - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on the 19th of November.

1970 - The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.

1978 - Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

1979 - Confessions of a Conservative.

1992 - Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.

1993 - He won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. 1995 - He received a L.H.D. from Bates College. - He received an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.

1997 - John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity"

1998 - President Clinton awarded him the National Endowment for the Humanities Presidential Medal. - He has also won the National Book Critics Circle Award.